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MarketWatch reports suspicions of gold market manipulation
GoldCore's O'Byrne, Sharps Pixley's Norman, Gold Newsletter's Lundin are actually quoted on the point. Could GATA's Bill Murphy be next?
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Gold Market 'Flash Crash' Explanations Vary from 'Fat Finger' to 'Price Manipulation'
By Myra Saefong
MarketWatch.com
Monday, January 6, 2014
http://blogs.marketwatch.com/thetell/2014/01/06/gold-market-flash-crash-...
Gold futures suffered a sudden, brief drop in prices early Monday on the Comex division of the New York Mercantile Exchange, with market watchers blaming the move on everything from a "fat finger: to trader liquidation to price manipulation.
According to Nanex, a trade of about 4,200 contracts sent February gold tumbling by $30 an ounce on heavy volume at around 10:14 a.m. Eastern and triggered a 10-second trading halt. Prices fell from about $1,245 to around $1,215 an ounce in just moments. The crash came about 14 minutes after the release of U.S. factory orders and ISM services index data.
Phil Flynn, a senior analyst at Price Futures Group, at first said the drop looked like it was due to a "fat finger," then added there was speculation over a broker liquidating positions.
Mark O'Byrne, executive director at GoldCore, said the "flash crash today had the hallmarks of price manipulation." Still, "as ever, it is nearly impossible to tell and could have been a fat finger trade or a large fund or bank liquidating a gold position."
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Meanwhile, Ross Norman, chief executive officer at Sharps Pixley, said that the move "looks to be shorts defending their substantial positions." But "some of us have doubts, which makes gold a steal at these prices," he said. "In fact, [it's] the cheapest insurance in town against economic difficulties."
February gold was last up $1.80, or 0.2%, at $1,240.40 an ounce on Comex.
Now the real question is whether the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission and exchange "will investigate and try to actually enforce its regulations," said Brien Lundin, editor of Gold Newsletter.
"Apparently there was no investigation into the mid-April episode where gold contracts were dumped simultaneously to push the price through sell stops. Either position limits were ignored by the exchange in this instance, or there was collusion involved -- either of which should have been investigated and exposed," he said.
"I'm afraid that today's spike downward is further evidence that the current regulatory regime isn't working," Lundin said.
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